John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As a former member of this committee, the Minister knows its work very well. I thank him for his presentation. I have some questions. On the front-line bonus, I got the sense in recent days that it was getting out of control from a media perspective. There were lots of expectations and the story surrounding the proposal was getting bigger. This meeting may be an opportunity for the Minister to contextualise this initiative and to offer his own views concerning how he sees this proposed bonus, where things stand with it and the Government's thinking in this regard.